After complete this lesson plan assignment, it makes me more confident that old lessons can be revived with the use of technology. I am using a lesson I had made last year centered around the book A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. In my original lesson, students were reading the book twice, organizing the main points, and learning implicit and explicit writing to be able to recognize different emotions the main character is feeling. They would then create a mobile with at least five main points and five different emotions she felt. Although this is not a very good description of the original assignment, I must say it was one of my favorite ones I created. It was well though out and used a great book.
I revamped this lesson by integrating technology into it. Since students will need to read the book twice to complete the activity, we will read it once as a whole class (or small group), and students will hear it read to them once online through the SAG BookPALS website (http://www.storylineonline.net/). Students will still use a graphic organizer to find the main points of the story, but instead of creating a mobile of the main character's different emotions, they will choose one to build another project around. Using Comic Life, students can make a picture depicting one of the emotions and a short explanation of why she feels that way. It is fun to make a lesson without having the limited resources or tools to use that most teachers have to deal with. Although I may not be able to use this lesson exactly in my own classroom if I don't have access to this particular program, it is reassuring to see how easily I can integrate technology into an old lesson.
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Nice job --- and technology really isn't that hard to infuse it just takes time and thought. Hopefully after participating in this class it will just become a natural part of your everyday teaching!
That's why I love this class! We were introduced to so many different aspects of technology that we could use in many, many different ways in our classrooms. And I wanted to let you know that on the Read Write Think website under student materials there is a free program called Comic Creator that you could use if you didn't have access to Comic Life!
I know! How cool is it to have learned all of these things! We are going to be able to do so many interesting things with our students as a result of learning about these programs.
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